We are delighted to announce that John Tully, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, is the winner of the 2010-11 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry. Prof. Tully has been a member of …
Awards & Honors
Helen Blackwell Named a Vilas Associate
Please join us in congratulating Professor Helen Blackwell on being named a Vilas Associate! The Vilas Associates Awards are made possible through a gift from the Vilas Trust. The awards are open to Assistant, Associate …
Mahesh Mahanthappa Wins Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award
Please join us in congratulating our very own Professor Mahesh Mahanthappa on winning the Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award! The Steiger Award is a very distinguished campus-level teaching award. As you can imagine, this …
Professor Jim Skinner Awarded a WARF Named Professorship
Please join us in congratulating Jim Skinner on being awarded a WARF Named Professorship! The WARF Named Professorships are awarded to the university’s most outstanding senior faculty. They are so named because they allow the …
Professor Qiang Cui Awarded an H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
Please join us in congratulating Qiang Cui on recieving an H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship! The Romnes Awards are given by the Graduate School to recognize the university’s most outstanding recently tenured faculty. The award …
Professors Burstyn, Weinhold & Weisshaar Elected as AAAS Fellows
We’re pleased to announce that Professors Judith Burstyn, Frank Weinhold, and Jim Weisshaar have all been elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This is a great honor bestowed …
Professor Mahesh Mananthappa Receives the James W. Taylor Award
Once per year we give out the James W. Taylor Award for Excellence in Teaching to one of our most outstanding Chemistry Department faculty or staff members. We’re pleased to announce that Mahesh Mahanthappa will …
Jerry Stamn, Tom Ladell & Bruce Goldade Win L&S Classified Staff Excellence Awards
We’re delighted to report that three of our staff have won College of Letters and Science Classified Staff Excellence Awards. They are: Jerry Stamn – Supervisor category Tom Ladell – Blue collar category Bruce Goldade …
Professor Robert Hamers Wins the Semiconductor Surfaces, Interfaces, and Nanostructures Prize
Our Department Chair – Professor Bob Hamers is perpetually congratulating department members who win awards for research, teaching, and service. But we just learned that he neglected to congratulate himself on winning the 2009 Semiconductor …
Danny Fredrickson Receives NSF Career Award
We’re pleased to announce that Professor Danny Fredrickson has been informed that he will be receiving an NSF CAREER Award!! The CAREER awards are extremely prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the …